On Our Radar: Confessions of a New Manager

It’s January 2, so your New Year’s resolutions all still seem entirely do-able. If one of your goals is to improve your management skills and find your way to a promotion, here’s a primer from WSJto help you get there. One tip: Annoy your employees in ways that improve performance but don’t foment mutinies. – Lauren Weber

Speaking of New Year’s resolutions, Forbes has a rundown of 10 business resolutions that most successful people make and then keep. Here’s a painless one you can do right now: “Plan vacations (now).” — Leslie Kwoh

And along those lines… From Fortune, confessions of a management newbie, and the lessons this first-time manager learned. — Rachel Emma Silverman

We recently wrote about how to sharpen your creative thinking at work. Lifehackeroffers another simple idea: Ask really naive questions, the ones you yourself ponder over, maybe the very questions that got you interested in your field in the first place. That’s what one cancer researcher did, to great effect. — Lauren Weber

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